There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
All this could be part of a plan. There is no way an atheist can prove it’s not. But it’s some plan,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think Pope Francis is a good shepherd and has great experience in following people in joyful, but also distressing situations and… — Christoph Schonborn Copy Share Image
We are not responsible for the behavior of anyone that goes contrary to what we teach, any more than the Pope of… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
We agree with the statement contained in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, written by Pope Leo XIII, that "anything which dominates the life… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
I've got the greatest line in the world about the pope coming out in favor of contraception, and I don't dare use… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation.… — Peter Slipper Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The key to me, in religion, is just to treat it like it doesn't really matter. We have a Pope, we don't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Well beloved subjects, wee thought that the clergie of our realme had been our subjectes wholy, but now we have well perceived… — Henry VIII of England Copy Share Image
So the Mexican government fed the pope a tremendous amount of stuff about Trump is not a good person, and the pope… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Pope Francis has helped me to focus once again on the joy in my pastoral ministry. He has challenged me genuinely to… — Wilton Daniel Gregory Copy Share Image
Your liberators tell you that that your suppressors are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp or Ford. And your… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I saw also the relationship between the two popes I saw how baleful (evil; harmful) would be the consequences of this false… — Anne Catherine Emmerich Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It was an incredible experience with Pope Francis, something that I'll never forget. It was a dream come true for a guy… — Juan Martin del Potro Copy Share Image
Since the Icelandic volcano obviously needs a virgin sacrifice and the Catholic Church obviously needs new leadership the Pope must volunteer to… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If [Pope's Francis] media-generated popularity, fragile as that may turn out to be when the world discovers that the pope is really… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Do you know what the title was of the Pope, which ought to be used? Servant of the servants of God. It's… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I'd also hope that my liberal friends, who find in this pope a critic of what they're pleased to call "culture-warrior" Catholics,… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the pope's health… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I think Pope Francis is a guy who comes from a certain place in the world, and that shapes how he processes… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“[ Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism :] Atheism by itself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby,… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
One of the topics that [Pope Francis] wants to raise, according to many Vatican analysts, is given the shortage of - worldwide… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism,… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The world is a challenging place in terms of wars and peace, basic human rights and freedoms. The Holy Father has a… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor… — Nicolas Cotugno Copy Share Image
I was in a state of shock, because I have never seen the pope talk about something as unimportant as Donald Trump.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
![“If [Pope's Francis] media-generated popularity, fragile as that may turn out to be when the world discovers that the pope is really a Catholic, opens windows of possibility for explaining that divine mercy leads us to the truths God revealed to us (and inscribed into the world and into us), then…” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fee/george-weigel-9372_catholic_if-pope-s-francis-media-generated-popula_1999412.jpg)
![“A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal,'" the Pope said. "The intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being does not change depending on their circumstances.” quote by Pope John Paul II](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/93a/pope-john-paul-ii-485_animal_a-man-even-if-seriously-sick-or-prevente_2342630.jpg)
![“The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about "center" and "periphery." The "peripheries," for Francis, are all those who have fallen through the cracks of late-modernity and…” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/14f/george-weigel-9372_argentina_the-pope-francis-takes-his-vocabulary-fr_261899.jpg)
![“[ Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism :] Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bbe/christopher-hitchens-117_adolf-hitler_said-during-a-debate-when-his-opponent-a_991808.jpg)
![“One of the topics that [Pope Francis] wants to raise, according to many Vatican analysts, is given the shortage of - worldwide shortage of priests is the possibility of a married priesthood. But he needs more backing from his bishops right now.” quote by Sylvia Poggioli](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bb0/sylvia-poggioli-32511_analysts_one-of-the-topics-that-pope-francis-want_2841165.jpg)
![“In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church…” quote by John Daniel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e75/john-daniel-33836_age_in-the-agreement-to-rescue-rome-i-e-the_1110756.jpg)
